by Emma Perez | Aug 10, 2026 | Buying, Homie, Market Trends, Real Estate, Utah
A decade ago American Fork was a quiet north Utah County town best known for its canyon and its hospital. Then Silicon Slopes arrived next door. The tech corridor built around Lehi and Thanksgiving Point pushed thousands of high-paying jobs to American Fork’s...
by Emma Perez | Aug 5, 2026 | Buying, Homie, Infographics, Real Estate, Utah
A home in one Wasatch Front city was taking about six weeks to sell in mid-2026 while a home a half-hour away was gone in under two. That spread, not the statewide average everyone quotes, is what tells a buyer where the negotiating room actually sits. The longer...
by Emma Perez | Aug 5, 2026 | Buying, guides, Homie, Infographics, Real Estate, Selling
Utah taxes your primary home on only 55 percent of its value. The other 45 percent is exempt, knocked off the taxable base before your rate is ever applied, under a statute most homeowners benefit from without ever thinking about it. The confusion starts when people...
by Emma Perez | Aug 5, 2026 | Buying, guides, Infographics, Market Trends, Real Estate, Selling
Pull up your address on Zillow, ask an agent to price it, and order a lender’s appraisal, and you can walk away with three different values on the same house, sometimes tens of thousands of dollars apart. None of them is lying. Each number is built by a...
by Emma Perez | Aug 3, 2026 | Arizona, Buying, guides, Real Estate
Ask around about down payment help in Arizona and you will usually hear one name, HOME Plus, and then the conversation stops. That leaves out the rest of the stack: a second statewide forgivable program, county and city HOME funds that can add real dollars in certain...
